Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht

Edith Alibec • Performance & Q&A aus Rumänien

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Why the child cooks in the polenta · Edith Alibec · Performance und Q&A aus Rumänien

Edith Alibec is no longer an unknown. Her first play “Tea and Milk”, which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2023 and in which she also plays the lead role, received 4 stars from The Scotsman and 5 stars from Broadway World UK. Now the Romanian-born actress is coming to Berlin to present her successful plays “Tea and Milk” and “Why the Child in the Polenta is Cooking” for the first time at the Berliner Volksbühne im Grünen Salon.

 

The actress, writer and producer completed her acting training in Germany. Her first play as a producer and actress, “Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht”, premiered in Munich in 2016. The play won all the prizes at Romania’s biggest festival Bacău Fest Monodrame in 2018 and was selected for Camden People’s Theatre’s Sprint Festival in 2020. The play has since toured the world and has been staged in three languages: German, English and Romanian. “Tea and Milk” is her first play as a playwright. “Alibec has a great energy as an actor and writer with an engaging and intense stage presence,” wrote The Scotsman, Scotland’s largest daily newspaper, about ‘Tea and Milk’ and Broadway World UK found the play ”incredibly funny […] and entertaining.”

 

“Why the child cooks in the polenta”

Based on the autobiographical work of Romanian-Swiss author and performer Aglaja Veteranyi, who committed suicide at the age of 40 shortly after her international literary breakthrough, the play follows the depression-prone young woman with black humor from her dysfunctional youth in a family of circus acrobats to her redemptive first steps as an independent artist. “Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht” is a painfully truthful monologue about growing up, vividly performed by actress Edith Alibec and directed by Dana Paraschiv.

Next date:

• Date Thursday, 07/November/2024 20:00 bis 23:00
• Venue Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz - Grüner Salon
• Address Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 10178 Berlin-Mitte